in other parts of Italy (e.g., the aforementioned 'Ndrangheta, the Neapolitan Camorra, the Apulian Sacra Corona Unita, etc.). Indeed, the "family" mystique is to such a great degree that in the late 1990s, after many Camorra leaders were imprisoned during a large-scale crackdown in Naples, many of their wives, girlfriends, daughters, and even mothers took temporary control of their gangs, in a widespread phenomenon of Camorra "godmothers". Sometimes the term is used to describe distinct units of crime syndicates of other ethnic and national origin, such as the Irish Mob, Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Tongs and Triads, Indian mafia, Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, Albanian mafia, Russian mafia, Maltese mafia , the Thief in law and Eastern European families. Some of these entities, like the 'Ndrangheta, may also be organized along blood-family lines. Crime families See also Crime lord Drug cartel Drug lord Gun moll List of crime bosses List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates Mafia Organized crime Footnotes Bibliography Gambetta, Diego (2009). Codes of the Underworld. Princeton University Press. Family